Out of the loop

He expressed that a shutdown will favor Trump and Musk, so sounds reasonable?

With PewDiePie switching to Linux, I've seen more and more post with him and they often get locked.

I almost hate to ask this since it's come up so much already, but what's with the Dragon Rider drama? Like what's going on

We have new members because of people fleeing, I'm seeing communities being archived, and just generally more than the regular Reddit being Reddit.

Seriously, what’s the significance of the word? There are many teens in my neighborhood, as well as me having a teenage sister, who laugh hysterically at the word.

I am a self proclaimed wiki-phile, I always donated when I could. It was kind of like going to the library without the fresh book smell.

I've heard Reddit is setting themselves up for another major fumble and that it relates to how much Spez is a fanboy of Elon Musk.

There's the whole TikTok thing, talk about EV cars, and now DeepSeek. I know I've heard my own stuff too, but I want to see what other people are hearing and seeing?

In one case, the same spot in the Gulf of Mexico was labelled "Reclaimed People's Climate Mao Museum".

I saw a meme about something of fake frames, but i don't know what happened.

I'm sure some political talk will be unavoidable but I'd like to keep this dry and to the point if we could.

Title says it all. I see a lot of chatter, but what's going on?

I see literally nothing but memes and tweet screenshots. An overview of what happened would really help fill me in

Seen a lot of memes about it, no idea what's going on.

So I thought that BlueSky was set up just like Lemmy in that it was fully decentralized into a sort of "terrorist cell" structure that wasn't focused on profits, but then found out that BlueSky has a CEO. Since this is a business, what makes BlueSky fundamentally different from Twitter or Instagram?

I'm aware of the url mishap with the dolls and vaguely aware of the poster controversy but I've also seen people online call it a PR disaster and I'm entirely out of the loop on that

Is the word Halloween not acceptable anymore?

I saw the apology statement and the original tweet but I'm genuinely confused about what people are mad about?

How likely or close are we to another pandemic? What would be the most likely government responses?

What I think I know : They tried to take a picture at Arlington National Cemetery, but couldn’t? There was a physical altercation maybe? But the Trump campaign said there wasn’t?

What happened in the vegan community?

Somehow I missed what out of this world happened to result in some people stranded in space, and I thought it'd be fun/interesting to see how others describe what led to it.

I saw someone say it was because she's supporting dems but that doesn't seem like enough for the amount of dunking I've seen. Did y'all think she was so far to the left that that would be a betrayal? I've typically thought of her as a progressive more than a leftist. Is there some statement she made I'm not aware of?

I keep seeing him but can't figure out his role in the memes. Is it random like the orb thing?

I heard that CloudStrike is something that runs on Windows servers, and an error with it caused a bunch of Win Servers to crash. What's the impact of the issue too?

Not that it personally affects me- I'm not in USA and it's one of the platforms I dislike the most. But I can't find a concise explanation for *why*.

I don’t speak German and even if I did I wouldn’t know what is going on as to why there is so many posts in German referencing pizza. Anyone in Germany care to clue me in?

News sources appear to be lying in the worst scenario, or distorting and confusing you, in the best scenario ..

I was only caught up with the news to its release date and didnt bother to check on it since then. I don't plan to play it, but rather to check on the headlines and reviews surrounding it since I've heard some negative comments about the game. I know about the recent trends of the gaming industry but I was kinda hoping for Starfield to be better since I really dig the concept of open world and space exploration games.

If I had a nickel for every one I've seen, I'd have two nickels, which isn't much, but it's strange it happened twice.

[Update: It seems to have been fixed now]

What's up with the bear memes?

I keep hearing about layoffs, studios being closed and how the industry is troubled. Are companies losing money and sales are poor, or is it the same as Google and other companies laying off people just to pump their stock price and make money despite profitability?

I know they're posting diss tracks against each other, but I'm not sure why? What made this start? And how was J. Cole involved? And how has this feud evolved so far?

Is related to the F1 guy? Or the AIR bnb dog?

All those student protests on the US seem to be about stopping their universities from supporting the Israel government. But supporting a foreign government is not a normal thing for a university to do, why do they do it?

I woke up and all I see are memes about trouts

I feel like I've been kind of in the loop for most of the headlines regarding this confrontation. Yet somehow I can't find it within myself to actually care about either side. It seems like both are lead by genocidal parties, hell bent on indoctrinating their populace into hating the other side. Yet at the same time people are able to discern which state is the good one. And some going so far as to believe that one state might even be right over the other.

I've watched some here and there, but having to try to catch them when they stream has put me too much in the mind of old tv and catching shows when they air. Watching the recording afterward is maybe good for some white noise, but it's clearly not the intended experience I think.

Over the past couple of weeks, I've seen a lot of content that's ripping on Arch Linux, from pictures of stickers being removed from laptops, to comments about it having a lot of bloat or frustrating package management. Was there a change to their policies, strategies, or distro that has turned this once proud vessel into a floating psycho ward?

There has been several conservative memes about golf courses going away or liberals taking them away. Did I miss some news about that?

I'll read long posts in either format, but the fragmented format of chained microblog posts, or threads, is mildly distracting at times.

Alright. What's the lore behind all the jean memes?

Sony announced a ton of layoffs recently, at the same time they announced they will not be releasing any major titles until 2025. Don't they need staff to make stuff? doesn't every company? Why all the sudden layoffs, it just doesn't make sense to me, what am I missing?

Today I opened up lemmy and noticed a bunch of posts about sinks on that community

I thought he was like one of the most important whistleblowers of our time exposing war crimes and shit. Some of you don't wanna see him live another day, why is that?

I see many Taylor swift posts with plane. Plane out of plane and more plane out of plane. Walking dog in plane, why so much plane?

I'm watching a new show that is clearly new with new writing and it just occurred to me, that some presumably eager well-paid writer is writing all this shit, so ...is the beef over?

I work from home and drink from mugs and I don't tiktok, so this whole trendy cup thing is really confusing me.

Like when did it happen , why is it gaining traction now , who all are involved etc. I'm so OOTP

Honestly I don't know if it's something Lemmy-only, but I see many post titles ending with the world rule for no apparent reason

I saw a video pop up in my recommends in which someone goes off on him and now I'm interested. mamamax infirmux.

A couple months ago the findings against Hunter Biden were nothing, not even worth taking to court, only under GOP pressure did the Trump appointed prosecutor take it to court. Now it seems like a big deal and 17 years (max). What happened? Why the change? Was new evidence found?

Sorry, living under a rock recently. Can someone ELI5 this for me? Thanks !

I don’t see news on the gov backing out, and the protest isn’t escalating further either. No more action almost always mean gov wins

As the title says, who is Henry Kissinger?

I've noticed quite a lot of new accounts popping up recently, wondering if something new happened over at Orange Alien HQ or maybe is this just normal growth?

I see news posts about the CEO being fired, all the staff threatening to leave, then the CEO being rehired and the board being fired. What the heck is this all about??

I know they've been around for ages now, but it feels like in the past few years there's been an increasing amount of people making them and trying to start little gigs/businesses of making them.

I keep seeing it on my random feed suggestions and this is using NewPipe, so it has nothing to do with my actual YouTube activity (I think. Nothing there is stuff I'm interested in, with very few exceptions). So I've ignored it first, then I watched like two and was super confused. Wtf. These videos have millions of views and I don't even understand the name or what's the appeal.

What's this line attached to many instances where people refer to someone's girlfriend who you wouldn't know because she goes to a different college?

I do not understand. Are they planning to form a coalition?

Not German but sometimes browse ich lel and have it translated. However I'm yoo old or out of the loop to get what's going on with all the fish/sturgeon memes in there.

I've seen so much stuff on what it means and how it affects people but I can't find anything on the reason behind why anyone wants to shut down the government

I'm not from California, so I don't know much about her; but this genuinely surprised me, especially how vicious and vitriolic the comments were. What's going on there?

I don't use TikTok at all, but I do watch compilation videos on YouTube sometimes. Lately there are some clips of livestreams of people doing really repetitive movements and phrases. What's up with that?

Sorry if I did it wrong, i've wondered about this for a long time.

Title says it all

I have seen this man before but I do not know who he is

Whats the final outcome of Unity's changes to their license. Also, do the changes apply to previously released games?

I keep seeing posts of some drama with typescript. What happened?

What changes are they making, and how to prevent them affecting users?

Was he arrested or something?

I have heard the usual "commie" bullshit and that they deny Uyghur genocide / stalin's crimes etc. I don't have a negative opinion of them, in fact they are one of the most kind and emphatic people on lemmy so I wanted a bit of background. Thanks!

Back in 2017 the story broke that Trump and his goons tried to get damaging information on Hillary Clinton from a Russian government official. The emails were clear solicitation of foreign interference with a presidential election. You know, the whole “if it is what you say, we love it” thing, which must be illegal.

I've been seeing a few posts about this, and judging by comments I've seen on posts related to this, there's been bad sentiment building up with LMG for some time now that has culminated in this recent dispute. Anyone have a brief catch-up of events?

I'm just so confused, what on earth happened?

I've seen a number of posts mention it, but none of them links to an explanation.

Title says it all I actually browsed reddit for the first time in months and their news is still better then ours and it kind of pissed me off.